Sarah McEneaney @ Locks Gallery
The Artblog
Michael Lieberman reviews Sarah McEneaney: When You Wish at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through October 8, 2016. Lieberman writes that McEneaney’s work presents “an extremely appealing and artistically unique glimpse into a consciousness of the moment that potentially could be shared by any seeing person in his or her own particular time and place.”
Jessica Stockholder: Interview
TimeOut New York
Paul Laster interviews artist Jessica Stockholder on the occasion of her exhibition The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, on view through October 1, 2016. Stockholder comments: “I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making. I’m interested in the idea of framing—the notion that artworks […]
Watteau’s Art of War
New York Sun Arts
Xico Greenwald reviews Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France at The Frick Collection, New York, on view through October 2, 2016. Greenwald writes: “The paintings gathered here might have been integral to Watteau’s artistic development. Perhaps these early experiments composing figures outdoors sparked the idea for fête galante scenes, with wounded soldiers […]
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Studio International
Anna McNay reviews the recent exhibition of works by Paula Modersohn-Becker at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. McNay writes: “[Modersohn-Becker’s] short but highly fertile career – she produced more than 700 paintings in seven years (1900-07), working seven days a week, ‘with a passion that excludes everything else’ – took place at […]
John Santoro @ Richard Gray Gallery
New City Art
Chris Miller reviews John Santoro, Slow Painting at Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, on view through September 7, 2016. Miller writes that Santoro’s paintings “reflect cosmic rather than psychological forces, even if they have been scaled down to personal size. Each painting is a tempest in a teapot, with the same swirling intensity often found in […]
A Conversation with Emil Robinson
One common thread that runs through all of Robinson’s work is a complex psychology – a tension and a depth of feeling that results from intense and perceptive observation.
Dana Schutz: Interview
Studio International
RK Lynn interviews painter Dana Schutz. In her introduction Lynn writes: “Pulling ideas from disparate subjects, pop culture, mythic figures and current events, Schutz takes us from mundanity – showering, waiting for a taxi, sleepwalking, sneezing – to a unique blend of (mythical) science fiction – getting dressed all at once, amalgamations of God, being […]
Lucian Freud: The Pitiless Eye
New York Review of Books
Jenny Uglow reviews Lucian Freud Unseen at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on view through September 6, 2016. Uglow writes: “Freud felt—in a very old-fashioned way—that his portraits somehow got to the essence, the heart of the ‘self.’ Martin Gayford quotes him as saying he wanted a painting not to be ‘of’ or ‘like’ the […]
Eric Fischl, David Salle & Ross Bleckner
Hamptons Art Hub
Eric Ernst reviews Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, on view through October 16, 2016. Ernst writs: “Fischl, Salle, and Bleckner all arrived in New York around 1978, at a point when declarations of painting’s passing […]
Zoey Frank: Interview
Painting Perceptions
Larry Groff interviews painter Zoey Frank. Frank comments: “I like the process of working things out during the painting… I like how it complicates the surface and I like how I feel engaged with the entire painting the entire time… I want to try new subjects and approaches because I think it informs everything I […]
Jill Nathanson: Potential of Color
MOCA Jacksonville Blog
Jaime Desimone interviews painter Jill Nathanson on the occasion of the exhibition Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction at MOCA Jacksonville, on view through September 4, 2016. The show features works by Nathanson as well as Keltie Ferris, Maya Hayuk, Fran O’Neill, Jackie Saccaccio, and Anke Weyer. Nathanson remarks: “I approach the painting as a […]
Wayne Thiebaud: Profile
Ed Schad profiles painter Wayne Thiebaud. Referring to Chardin in an interview at his studio Thiebaud remarks: “The wonderful thing about common objects, of almost any kind, is exactly what the poets talk about. They are talking about a transcendent potential, that they can be more than they are. For instance, let’s say a bunch […]
Maria Calandra on Joan Miró
Maria Calandra writes about Joan Miró’s Potato (1928) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Calandra observes: “There is no boundary placed on the imagination when it comes to experiencing a Miró. Things are seen and unseen, and ideas take flight only to disappear into the dizzying motion of imagery. Primary […]
The Influence of Caravaggio
Excerpt from Michael Fried’s new book After Caravaggio published by (Yale University Press). The excerpt focuses on the painter Valentin de Boulogne. Fried writes: “I want to use Valentin’s canvas [Valentin de Boulogne, Fortune Teller, c. 1620s (Musée du Louvre, Paris)] as point of reference for a series of remarks about what I take to […]
Patricia Treib: Interview
Joe Fyfe interviews painter Patricia Treib. Treib remarks: “In my work, I want a sense of activation where things are slippery and moving, a feeling of immediacy and presence. But this activation stems from something I’ve sat with for a long time. Like a meditation point, something banal that I’ve spent a long time looking […]
Victor Lara: Passion in Paint
Addison Parks blogs about the paintings of Victor Lara. Parks writes: “My own sense when looking at Victor Lara’s most recent paintings is that once where there was turmoil, now there is a garden. What was once an abstract reincarnation of something like Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, with all of its writhing layers of humanity, ascending […]
Margot Bergman: Painting Souls
William Eckhardt Kohler reviews works by Margot Bergman at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, on view through August 26, 2016. Kohler writes: “Comprised of sixteen imaginary portraits half of the paintings are part of her long practice of working on top of paintings she has found in flea markets… In the paintings on view here […]
Ed Moses @ Brian Gross
David M. Roth reviews Ed Moses: LA—SAN FRANCISCO at Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, on view through August 27, 2016. Roth writes that a recent retrospective of Moses’ work “revealed, at length, the artist’s many process innovations and his far-reaching influence on abstract painting, keeping it fresh when it was for so long under […]
Brandi Twilley: Interview
Emily Colucci interviews painter Brandi Twilley on the occasion of Twilley’s exhibition The Living Room at Sargent’s Daughters, New York, on view through August 26, 2016. Twilley comments: “It was a slow process of remembering. Some things I never managed to remember and I left them unclear. The scale and shape of things in the paintings […]